FIRST SLAVE REVOLT IN COLONIES

There are many kinds of revolt. One lesson we can take from American slave revolts is that no matter how dire the situation and no matter how high the cost, freedom is worth fighting for. On September 13, 1663, the first recorded major conspiracy of persons in servitude in colonial America occurred in Gloucester County, Virginia. White and Black slaves tried to escape from their masters. However, the plot was betrayed.

The other lesson: WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO SECURE FREEDOM, TRUST WITH SUSPICION!


A Wikipedia history of slave revolts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion

A PBS timeline of slave revolts and a movie about Nat Turner:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/natturner/slave_rebellions.html

From a pdf. essay on slave revolts by Dr. Sujan Dass at www.TwoHorizonsPress:
http://supremedesignonline.com/2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/blackrebellionexcerpts.pdf

"A cursory glance of our traditional history curriculum suggests that slave revolts, like the one led by Nat Turner, were few and far in between. Further, the uprisings themselves are typically thought of as disorganized clashes between angry slaves and local whites in the South. Instead, the historical record reveals that uprisings, and revolt plots were common and widespread, that it was often free Blacks and those enslaved under the least repressive conditions that led insurrections, that these insurrections were often highly organized and required months of planning and thousands of committed participants, and that enslaved Africans and their descendants rebelled against captivity from its very onset."